Quotes by Telling Stories There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's something you have to work at. And one of the ways to work at it - perhaps the best - is storytelling: telling stories about yourself to others, telling stories about yourself to yourself, telling stories about others to others. Aleksandar Hemon telling-stories kind way Literature is about telling stories. Amos Oz telling-stories literature stories I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music. Anthony Davis telling-stories voice writing I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. Ben Macintyre telling-stories secret stories Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. Ben Okri telling-stories fear heart I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors. Colm Meaney telling-stories actors directors I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect. David S. Goyer telling-stories stories people In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do. Fede Alvarez telling-stories everyday squares I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free speech and freedom of the press and the essentiality and centrality in our lives of really giving broad protection to freedom of speech and freedom of the press in America. I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis. Floyd Abrams telling-stories principles real I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. Francis Ford Coppola telling-stories stories wanted I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories. Henry Rollins telling-stories stories love-is I like telling stories. Hunter Parrish telling-stories stories All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story. Isak Dinesen telling-stories sorrow writing I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important. J. J. Abrams telling-stories important thinking I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most. Jeff Probst telling-stories stories I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good. Joss Whedon telling-stories ambition want I'm a writer. I just love telling stories. Kurt Busiek telling-stories stories I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories. Michael Fassbender telling-stories simple stories I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country. Miguel Gomes telling-stories different country Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch. Paul McGann telling-stories tough real 12»